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| Otters holding hands |
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Vancouver Aquarium: two sea otters float around,
napping, holding hands. SO CUTE!
Tags : otters cute |
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Affichage : 11411195
Durée : 100 s |
| Orphaned Sea Otter Pup |
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Abby, a California sea otter pup, is cared for by
Mark Bressler, senior animal care specialist at
SeaWorld San Diego. The Santa Barbara Marine
Mammal Center found the otter stranded and near
comatose on Jalama Beach, north of Santa Barbara,
Calif., on July 21 and brought it to SeaWorld for
rehabilitation. The female pup, which was
estimated to be less than a week old when rescued,
is being bottle-fed around the clock at SeaWorld
and weighs approximately four pounds.
When the young otter was rescued, she was
dehydrated, hypoglycemic, having difficulty
maintaining her body temperature and weighed about
three pounds (sea otter pups weigh between three
and five pounds at birth). At first, the otter
was too weak to nurse and had to be tube-fed.
Animal care specialists eventually were able to
get her to drink from a bottle. The otter pup is
showing signs of progress, including nursing from
a bottle regularly, and maintaining a normal body
temperature of 99 to 100 degrees F.
The California sea otter is listed as a threatened
species by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Threats
include oil spills, entanglement in fishing nets
and disease. The three California sea otters now
on display at SeaWorld's Rocky Point Preserve were
originally stranded and rescued as part of the
Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Otter Research and
Conservation (SORAC) Program.
Since 1965, SeaWorld San Diego has rescued
thousands of animals and has treated as many as
475 marine mammals in one year. SeaWorld has
raised three other orphaned otters in the last 15
years, in cooperation with Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Tags : animal california conservation ocean orphan otter pup rescue sea seaworld |
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Affichage : 56205
Durée : 200 s |
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